Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Fedora Master]

They'll probably do an "enhanced edition" somewhere down the line that will "fix" (there's no fixing this mess) act 3.

Can't fix the writing.

The writing is perfectly fine if you're not a turboautist.

It's one of the most woke games ever made, and unless you're a fucking degenerate, you'll be constantly disgusted and it'll never let you feel any immersion. The whole thing is written like the setting is 2023 California with magic and fantasy races, everyone talks and acts like modern americans. There is absolutely nothing fine about it, it's fucking awful.

Even if you ignore the Homosexual Belgian Agenda, the story falls apart by Act 3.

 

[Space Satan]

 

[Lacrymas]

The writing in this game is beyond awful in every possible sense.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

I was just going to post this lol

 

[luj1]

The writing in this game is beyond awful in every possible sense.

It's Larian dude. In DOS you literally got quests from talking dogs and Mr Crabs on the beach.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

The dialog is more sensical than in most Larian games. At least at first. But there were clearly some zany writers on the cuck squad who at every step screwed it up.

 

[Tyranicon]

This might be old news to you guys, but I just found out they made my avatar canonically an incest breeder.

I missed it because honestly I didn't really give a shit about Act 3 or Orin.

WTF. I'm not changing my icon just because Larian has weird fetishes.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

This might be old news to you guys, but I just found out they made my avatar canonically an incest breeder.

I missed it because honestly I didn't really give a shit about Act 3 or Orin.

WTF. I'm not changing my icon just because Larian has weird fetishes.

Oh no!... A clearly fucked up person that worship murder is not a morally correct person what a shocker! Let's blame the writers to write a fucked up individual as a fucked up individual!

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Oh no!... A clearly fucked up person that worship murder is not a morally correct person what a shocker! Let's blame the writers to write a fucked up individual as a fucked up individual!

>killing people makes you want to fuck your children
>checkmate, bigots

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Oh no!... A clearly fucked up person that worship murder is not a morally correct person what a shocker! Let's blame the writers to write a fucked up individual as a fucked up individual!

>killing people makes you want to fuck your children
>checkmate, bigots

Low morality people doing low morality things so unbelievable! WOW! Is not that he worships a Divinity infamous to make females of different species even not human pregnant nooooo!
XD
You guys...

 

[Hagashager]

Find a good writer who will agree to work for such a shitty salary.

I wonder how much they paid George RR Martin for Elden Ring

I assume he got so much that he could still not finish the book for another 10 years. Another thing is that he didn't really do much except writing the background story.

do you think a good book writer can write a good game story? I'm not sure because the format is different.

It is extremely hard to reconcile game mechanics in a world not written with those mechanics in mind.

I have written stories in a fantasy world, I never imagined this setting of mine being made into a game of any kind. There're certain concepts that, conceivably, could be made into mechanics, but functionally are not. People who've read my work all go, "oh man, this'd be a cool PnP setting!"

For example, my setting uses Vancian Magic, but in the very literal, "Derived from The Dying Earth novels" sense of spells being extremely rare, extremely powerful, and extremely dangerous. Mages and magic aren't commonplace, so making mechanics surrounding magic just isn't really possible without totally butchering my setting.

Likewise, a fully sentient, fully cultured fantasy race in my setting has no concrete form. How do you mechanize a species that can evolve, in-real-time, at will?

It's all great setup for the *stories* I want to tell, but I don't see how I could make this into a game without necessarily leaving out the most exotic and interesting components.

 

[Yosharian]

If you don't like canon stuff just ignore it? Your favourite character isn't ruined just cos some blue hair got their fan fic implemented into a game

 

[ERYFKRAD]

How do you mechanize a species that can evolve, in-real-time, at will?

Like Spore with cheat engine.

 

[Swen]

Well well well, seems our jap friends also love my game.

BG3 is the top download of december in Japan for PS5

https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2024/01/12/20240112-downloadranking/


And after 5+ months BG3 is STILL the best selling game on Steam.

The game will EASILY hit 20+ million units sold, probably 30+ million over a couple of years.

 

[Cologno]

Well well well, seems our jap friends also love my game.

BG3 is the top download of december in Japan for PS5

https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2024/01/12/20240112-downloadranking/


And after 5+ months BG3 is STILL the best selling game on Steam.

The game will EASILY hit 20+ million units sold, probably 30+ million over a couple of years.

Sure, but how many actually finished it? Because Larian certainly didn't. The dillhole responsible for carrying the story just stuck his hands down his pants to rub one out after Act 3.

 

[Swen]

Well well well, seems our jap friends also love my game.

BG3 is the top download of december in Japan for PS5

https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2024/01/12/20240112-downloadranking/


And after 5+ months BG3 is STILL the best selling game on Steam.

The game will EASILY hit 20+ million units sold, probably 30+ million over a couple of years.

Sure, but how many actually finished it? Because Larian certainly didn't. The dillhole responsible for carrying the story just stuck his hands down his pants to rub one out after Act 3.

https://x.com/larianstudios/status/1732091568243229159?s=61

1.3 million players completed the game, numbers from december.

So quite a lot for such a long game, especially taking into account many normies played it too.

 

[Yuber]

When I check my friends trophies on PS none of them finished Act 2 LOL
They all quit after Act 1 it seems.

 

[luj1]

And after 5+ months BG3 is STILL the best selling game on Steam.

The game will EASILY hit 20+ million units sold, probably 30+ million over a couple of years.

I understand that is very important to you, but there is no guaranteed link between profit and quality.

 

[Swen]

And after 5+ months BG3 is STILL the best selling game on Steam.

The game will EASILY hit 20+ million units sold, probably 30+ million over a couple of years.

I understand that is very important to you, but there is no guaranteed link between profit and quality.

Luckily most people love the game, not just critics.

"Bu muh wRiTinGz!!!, muh Bear SexorZ!"

 

[Lacrymas]

I'd dare argue the success of the game is at least partially due to the awful writing. People love to slurp up this shit. It's the same principle as fan fiction, what this game essentially is anyway.

 

[Lambach]

Bad writing? With this in the game?



11/10 Game of the Decade

 

[Swen]

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

I'm near to finishing act 1, finally. I'm enjoying the game a lot but I think I'm encountering a lot bugged/glitched stuff:

- In the quest of saving Maryna from the hag, I couldn't give her the magic wand. I had to go into stealth mode, open the coffin and resurrect his husband to finish the quest. Apparently the dialog of giving her the wand only pops up the first time you talk to her, I didn't have it at the time so I couldn't do anything. Is really weird considering the dialog she has while mourning her husband is always the same.
- On the Grove, I can't give to the tiefling blacksmith the piece of iron to deal with Karlach's core. I tried to give it to Karlach, donate him the piece, and to sell it to himtoo. But the dialog is like I didn't have it in my inventory. Apparently you find this guy later in the game, so maybe I'll manage to do it.
- I can't give magic items to Gale, so I can cure the effects of his "hunger". Also, it seems like his dialogs and events related to this are not going forward, but that may be my impression.

I managed to get through the goblin camp killing everyone, but I left Minthara unconcious. You are supposed to encounter her later in the game by doing so, but I read that in previous versions of the game that wasn't a chance. Why not? The game has an obvious in-game mechanic to defeat enemies in a non-lethal way. If that's true then it was a big oversight imo. Anyway, I have a bad habit of always pressing the "loot all" button. So this happened.

Spoiler

Dark elvussy

I had to defeat her twice, because she woke up after I took a long rest at the camp, and Halsin wasn't continuing the quest. In the second fight she couldn't do anything, she had no gear. Only some spells (The paralysis one, one for healing and one for motivating near enemies).

 

[Orutrus]

Hmmm. Are we sure it's called the Underdark and not the Underlight? It's more lit than the average bandit cave. It looks like a Trine map.